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New Features in Maptitude
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This latest release of Maptitude, the award winning GIS desktop
software, continues to provide easy-to-use yet powerful mapping tools.
Maptitude 4.8 remains the most competitively priced, full featured
GIS/mapping software available. Maptitude 4.8 provides extensive new
functionality and enhancements:
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TerraServer-USA
Toolbox |
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Maptitude can now download
imagery for any area of the United States with the click of a
button. These images are accessed from TerraServer-USA, an on-line
database of high resolution USGS aerial imagery and scanned USGS
topographic maps. In conjunction with Internet access, users can use
the tool to download images of three types:
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Aerial image: nationwide black and white digital orthophoto
quadrangles (DOQs)
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Topographic map:
nationwide digitally scanned images of USGS topographic maps,
also called digital raster graphics (DRGs)
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Urban color image: color DOQs for the 133 most populated
metropolitan areas of the United States
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distinctive feature of the tool is that the user can specify the
resolution and this allows the download of high quality images over
a large area. As an alternative to choosing the resolution of the
image, the user can let Maptitude automatically make this choice.
Once accessed, these images can be saved as layers to be used in any
online or offline map. |
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New Support for
Excel |
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Users
can now save any table or dataview to the
Microsoft Office Excel worksheet format (.XLS). |
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Improved Map
Librarian Maps |
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Creating attractive maps
is even easier with new and revised Map Librarian maps. Now you can
quickly create attractive overview maps for any location. The Map
Librarian also includes a new overview map designed specifically for
use with downloaded TerraServer USA images. |
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Open Maptitude
Maps in ArcMap |
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Any
Maptitude map can now be opened as a map in ArcMap, one of the
programs that is part of the Esri ArcGIS system of software. You can
choose which layers to include in the map and can also choose to
retain a selection set for each included layer.
When opened in ArcMap the
map will have the same scale and projection as the original map in
Maptitude. Layers are displayed with the same styles where matched,
and these include themes, visibility, autoscale and selected
features.
This new feature extends
the extensive file export capabilities of Maptitude, reinforcing its
position as a full-fledged GIS platform
both as a stand-alone product and in conjunction with existing
spatial systems. |
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File Formats |
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Maptitude supports MrSID Generation 3 image files. |
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Maptitude imports TIGER/Line 2005 files. |
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GISDK |
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With the flexible and powerful programming language (GISDK) that is
included with Maptitude you can create new add-ins and applications
and call GISDK functions and macros from other programs, written in
another language. Maptitude now provides many new functions for
developers. These include those for additional array element
manipulation, bit based integer processing, determining topological
neighbors of DEM points, and obtaining system information such as
processor type, the number of processors and whether Terminal
Services is running, as well as many more. |
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New U.S. Data |
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Streets 2005 is based on TIGER/Line 2005
files from the U.S. Census with additional improvements by Caliper |
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Improved Census
lines and boundaries (States,
Counties, Tracts, Water Areas, Landmark Areas,
ZCTAs, CBSAs, Places, Indian Reservations, and Perennial Water Lines)
based on
TIGER/Line
2005 |
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2005 County Areas with 2005 population estimates |
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2006
CBSAs with 2005 population estimates |
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2005
Places |
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2006
5-digit ZIP Code point locations including P.O. Boxes,
companies and buildings from April 2006 |
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features that were new to Version 4.7.
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